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"I have let loose enough information in my letters it seems to isolate a grain of sand in a bucket." — From an anonymous letter George Metesky sent to a newspaper in 1956 As editor of "Curiosity's Cats: Writers on Research," I had asked various writers — historians, journalists, novelists and a screenwriter/director — to compose original essays about their adventures in nondigital research. I suggested this might include describing face-to-face interviews, digging in libraries and archives, or visiting obscure and lonely patches of geography — anything a writer does to find background material. For my own essay, "The Mad Bomber...

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"I have let loose enough information in my letters it seems to isolate a grain of sand in a bucket."
— From an anonymous letter George Metesky sent to a newspaper in 1956
As editor of "Curiosity's Cats: Writers on Research," I had...

Ellen McCormack, a New York housewife who briefly became a national figure in American politics when she twice ran for president, in 1976 and 1980, in campaigns designed to galvanize the antiabortion movement, has died. She was 84.
McCormack died of...